The OFX import assistant includes a step to match newly imported transactions to existing transactions, as you probably noticed.
The problem is that it is error prone and has to be monitored carefully during the import process. I prefer to import a small number of transactions at a time so that I am less likely to be overwhelmed. The program is supposed to learn from previous imports and improve it's accuracy eventually, but in my experience it still seems to make a lot of mis-matches. I still end up with duplicates when it fails to find the correct match or I just get tired of searching and just let the duplicates through. I am less likely to miss a transaction if I use the import assistant, so I continue to use it. David C On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Warner Losh <wl...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I download all my transactions from my back in quickbooks OFX format. I > import them into gnu cash. This works well; however, I’ve hit a snag. > > I have a credit card, a paypal account and a bank account. These all have > different formats for downloading the data from, which I can convert to > something gnu cash can import. When I do this, though, I have a small > problem. The bank account comes in via OFX, so has lots of Imbalance-USD > entries. I’ve used this account for the import of some items from the > credit card and paypal accounts as well. So I wind up with a transaction in > the bank ledger that is a payment to the credit card, but doesn’t credit > that account. There’s also a separate transaction in the credit card that’s > a payment from the bank, but doesn’t debit the bank account. In a sense, > there’s two double entries I’d like to combine to eliminate the > Imbalance-USD account entirely since I don’t think that’s a real account > and find it sloppy book keeping. Is there anything I can use to merge > entries when I’m replying on downloading the bulk of the data rather than > entering it myself? > > Thanks for any help you can give me here. > > Warner > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
